Wednesday, December 4, 2013

WIP Wednesday -- Scrap Attack edition

I've been terribly remiss in my blogging lately. Things are finally calming down at the library, but with the Holidays things are busy at home... a girl can't win. This post should really be all about the holiday sewing that I'm doing, but I haven't even started it yet.

Instead I've been playing with my prolific scrap pile. I posted this pic on Instagram last week (play along with #scrapbagofshame). I really don't know how I generate so many scraps considering I have yet to finish a quilt... but i do, so I'm turning them into useful things.

Have you looked at Sunday Morning Quilts? They have so many beautiful scrap projects in the book that I thought it would be a good starting point to try to tame this pile.

I started with the Scrapper's Delight quilt because I have lots of strips and strings and I was thinking it would be a good charity quilt and opportunity to practice FMQ. I have three blocks complete, and many in progress blocks (yay chain piecing!) I'm loving how they're turning out so far :)

I got so tired of sorting through the huge scrap pile that I decided to try another project from the book -- scrap storage baskets. They're coming together really quickly from my larger scraps. I've been using the Quilt as you Go method to make the panels instead of sewing a slab then quilting.

Since this was spur of the moment, I just need to get the correct interfacing for the lining and then I'll have the red complete.

I didn't plan the orange slab as well, so it has some random scraggly bits that I'm hoping get lost in the seam allowance.

My partner asked for low volume and aqua. Surprisingly I didn't have that many aqua scraps, so I'm happy I was able to come up with enough to add some color.

I'll probably table these projects for the week because I'm hoping to catch up on the rest of my commitments for the month (bee blocks, swaps), then get my Christmas stockings sewed up :) What have you been working on?